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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450964203321

Titolo

Democratic learning : the challenge to school effectiveness / / edited by John MacBeath and Lejf Moos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeFalmer, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-33897-X

1-134-33898-8

0-203-35290-4

1-280-17142-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 p.)

Collana

Readers in education The RoutledgeFalmer reader in teaching and learning

Altri autori (Persone)

MacBeathJohn E. C

MoosLejf

Disciplina

370/.1

Soggetti

Education - Philosophy

Education - Aims and objectives

Learning - Philosophy

Democracy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

BookCover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1 Democratic learning and school effectiveness; 2 Reforming for democratic schooling; 3 Democratic values, democratic schools; 4 Learning democracy by sharing power; 5 Children's participation in a democratic learning environment; 6 The darker side of democracy; 7 Democratic leadership in an age of managerial accountability; 8 Democratic leadership for school improvement in challenging contexts; 9 Learning in a knowledge society; Conclusion; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The time has come to challenge many of the age-old assumptions about schools and school learning. In this timely book leading thinkers from around the world offer a different vision of what schools are for. They suggest new ways of thinking about citizenship, lifelong learning and the role of schools in democratic societies. They question many of



the tenets of school effectiveness studies which have been so influential in shaping policy, but are essentially backward looking and premised on school structures as we have known them. Each chapter confronts some of the myths of schooling we have ch